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We've all been there: you drop your bottle of soda at some point and when you try to open it, it bursts into foam.

My question is, then: why does shaking a carbonated drink make the dissolved gas escape?

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We've all been there: you drop your bottle of soda at some point and when you try to open it, it bursts into foam.

My question is, then: why does shaking a carbonated drink make the dissolved gas escape?

(I can't think of appropriate tags for this so feel free to retag.)

We've all been there: you drop your bottle of soda at some point and when you try to open it, it bursts into foam.

My question is, then: why does shaking a carbonated drink make the dissolved gas escape?

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Emilio Pisanty
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Why are coke bottles that much fizzier if you shake them?

We've all been there: you drop your bottle of soda at some point and when you try to open it, it bursts into foam.

My question is, then: why does shaking a carbonated drink make the dissolved gas escape?

(I can't think of appropriate tags for this so feel free to retag.)